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Women in the Bible

Books on: women biblical

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I Am--: Biblical Women Tell Their Own Stories

Book by Athalya Brenner; Fortress Press, 2005

Subjects:

Autobiographical Fiction, Bible--O.T--History Of Biblical Events--Fiction, Women In The Bible--Fiction

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...This, as we shall not tire of mentioning in the present context, often happens to biblical women-also to biblical men, to be sure, but more so to biblical women, which is not a bad thing: it makes it possible for us to convene here today...
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Assertive Biblical Women

Book by William E. Phipps; Greenwood Press, 1992

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Assertiveness (Psychology)--Biblical Teaching, Women In The Bible

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Proverbs depiction of wisdom as a woman close to Yahweh. In ancient Israel, the main area from which women were excluded was the priesthood...According to Levitical law, a woman was taboo during her menstrual...Church still believes, that women could not be priests because...women will be presented. These biblical women were, at crucial times...
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The Creation of Man and Woman: Interpretations of the Biblical Narratives in Jewish and Christian Traditions

Book by Gerard P. Luttikhuizen; Brill, 2000

Subjects:

Adam--(Biblical Figure), Bible--O.T--Genesis I-Ii--Criticism, Interpretation, Etc--History, Creation--History Of Doctrines, Eve--(Biblical Figure)

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...to fertility men feel inferior to women. The exercise of power over women, patriarchy, is seen as a defence...is no substitution for the work of biblical scholars, but a supplement. I hope biblical scholars are inclined to take my study...
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Praise Her Works: Conversations with Biblical Women

Book by Penina Adelman; Jewish Publication Society, 2005

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Bible--O.T--Proverbs Xxxi--Commentaries, Midrash Ha-Gadol, Women In The Bible

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Vines and Silent Partners: Women as Wives in Rab- binic Literature in Midrashic Women: Formations of the Feminine...Umansky, scholar on Jewish women, has written an essay on...Lifecycles: Jewish Women on Biblical Themes in Contemporary Life...
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Elusions of Control: Biblical Law on the Words of Women

Book by Jione Havea; Brill, 2003

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Bible--O.T--Numbers Xxx--Criticism, Interpretation, Etc, Women In Judaism, Women--Religious Aspects--Judaism

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Reading: Desire, Alienation, and Biblical Interpretation. Edited by Fiona...Studies 36. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature. Slotki, Judah J...Structures of Power. Pp. 16-28 in Women in the Biblical Tradition, edited by George J...

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Journal Articles on: women biblical

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Women on the Edge: New Perspectives on Women in the Petrine Haustafel

Journal article by Betsy J. Bauman-Martin; Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 123, 2004

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Bible, Exegesis & hermeneutics, Violence, Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...Edge: New Perspectives on Women in the Petrine Haustafel by...confronting the problem because of biblical beliefs about the honor of...easily."1 In one story, a woman told her pastor that her husband...that norms which identify women with the household limit the role of women exclusively to the private...it is useful to see the woman married to the unbeliever...
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Foreignness and Poverty in the Book of Ruth: a Legal Way for a Poor Foreign Woman to Be Integrated into Israel

Journal article by Agnethe Siquans; Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 128, 2009

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Book reviews, Families & family life, Husbands, Nonfiction, Society, Torah, Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...foreign woman" (...), and...she primarily is: a woman from Moab. Some hostility against Moabite women has to be presupposed...Knowing all relevant biblical stories and laws concerning...referring to Moabite men and women cannot be applied to...herself as a "foreign woman," ... When Boaz...time defined as poor in biblical texts, whereas the...
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A Woman's Unbound Hair in the Greco-roman World, with Special Reference to the Story of the "sinful Woman" in Luke 7:36-50

Journal article by Charles H. Cosgrove; Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 124, 2005

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Behavior, Exegesis & hermeneutics, Hair, Jesus Christ, New Testament, Social life & customs, Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...figure. Moreover, the suggestion that the woman becomes Jesus host, although it is not meant literally, associates her with the women mentioned in the next narrative. They...Luke 8!2-S).54 Both the sinful woman and these women take care of him. This construal of the...
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Analogical Reasoning in Romans 7:2-4: a Woman and the Believers in Rome

Journal article by Peter Spitaler; Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 125, 2006

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Bible, Christianity, Death & dying, Men, Sin, Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...Analogical Reasoning in Romans 7:2-4: a Woman and the Believers in Rome by Peter Spitaler...a man who, by his death, liberates a woman from the law that had governed his life...prop. Rom. 1.36). By relating a woman who is free from the law because of a mans...
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A Woman at Prayer: a Critical Note on Psalm 131:2b

Journal article by Melody D. Knowles; Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 125, 2006

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Bible, Exegesis & hermeneutics, Old Testament, Poetry, Prayer, Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...written by someone (either a man or a woman) intent on teaching women such behavior. No evidence rules out...open enough to include both men and women as authors, and this same openness...included in Hannahs prayer about a barren woman giving birth to seven children (1 Sam...written from the point of view of a woman, this does not eliminate its recitation...larger community. In addition, if women and children were participants in public...

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Magazine Articles on: women biblical

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Adam Minus Eve: What Is It That Women Have Not Yet Acquired, Recognised or Considered That Will Bring Them in Their Own Right to the Dining Table of Power?, Asks Affiong L. Affiong in This Tongue-in-Cheek Analysis of the Role of Women in Power-Sharing. the Sons of Adam Are Very Choosy about When and Where They Want Women to Act out the Biblical Role of Helpmate, She Writes

Magazine article by Affiong L. Affiong; New African, January 2009

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Electioneering--Demographic aspects, Gender equality--Political aspects, Ghana--Demographic aspects, Ghana--Political aspects, Political campaigns--Demographic aspects, Politics--Demographic aspects, Power sharing (Interpersonal relations)--Demographic aspects, Women in politics--Analysis, Women politicians--Analysis

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...kindly informed all and sundry that (a) women were their own worst enemies and were unlikely to be supportive of a woman vice-presidential candidate and (b) the parties were not ready for a women vice president. Thus, out of the four...political parties, only one party chose a woman vice-presidential candidate. The story...
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Moses / Jesus / Women: Does the New Testament Offer a Feminist Message

Magazine article by Esther Fuchs; Cross Currents, Vol. 49, Winter 1999

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Bible and feminism--Social aspects, Jesus Christ--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Moses (Biblical figure)--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Women in Christianity--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Women in Judaism--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Women in the Bible--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...you from among the Hebrew women a woman able to nurse that she may...spiritual prostration at which women seem especially adept. The Canaanite woman from Tyre begs Jesus for a...author of Israeli Mythogynies: Women in Contemporary Hebrew Fiction...entitled Sexual Politics in the Biblical Narrative: Reading the Hebrew Bible Like a Woman (Sheffield Academic Press...
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Is the Bible Bad News for Women?

Magazine article by Cullen Murphy; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 22, Summer 1998

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Bible and feminism--Analysis, Bible. O.T. (Sacred text)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women and religion--Analysis, Women in the Bible--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...she became the first woman ever to be accepted...she encountered two women, Judith Plaskow and...the field of feminist biblical studies, though their...doing the naming is a woman. In a number of other...assume that it must be a woman, since the naming occurs...childbirth, when only women would have been present...on to observe, "In biblical times, it seems, children...
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5 "Truths" about Women Voters: (That Are Flat-Out False)

Magazine article by Melinda Henneberger; Campaigns & Elections, Vol. 29, January 2008

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Elections--Public opinion, Voting--Social aspects, Women--Psychological aspects

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...2: Conservative Women Just Arent Ready for a Woman in the White House...strongly religious women who see a biblical injunction against...Right-leaning women regularly mention...run: "For a black woman to rise the way she...
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Campaign Honours Missing Native Women [Sisters in Spirit

Magazine article by Nancy Devine; Vol. 130, January 2004

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Advertising campaigns, Anglican Church, Anglican Church of Canada, Associations, Church & social aspects, Missing persons, Native Women's Assn of Canada, Native peoples, Native women, United Church, United Church of Canada, Women's organizations

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...including liturgical material, biblical resources, prayers and a...Canada a safer place for native women like her younger sister...C. The 39-year-old woman had been brutally beaten and...justice system, and aboriginal women in Canada top the list in...says that once a native woman leaves a reserve, she becomes...find jobs. "Often, the women end up on the street. And...

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Newspaper Articles on: women biblical

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Women Profit from Biblical Inspiration; Former Drug Addicts Learn Antique Skill

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), March 27, 2010

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Women Profit from Biblical Inspiration; Former Drug Addicts...Skill. Byline: Lisa Hutchinson BIBLICAL inspiration has led to one woman taking payment from the rich...year-old is training groups of women to restore expensive antiques...
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Woman Drowns in 'Biblical' Australian Floods

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), January 3, 2011

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Disaster victims, Floods--Australia

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Woman Drowns in Biblical Australian Floods. A WOMAN drowned...one official described as reaching "biblical proportions". Days of heavy rain last...In many ways, it is a disaster of biblical proportions," Queensland treasurer...
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GOD IS A WOMAN; (1) THE BIBLICAL PLAY THAT WON'T FOLLOW SCRIPTURE RELIGIOUSLY (2) Deliver Us from Feminism Says Furious Archdeacon as Actress Turns Him into Her

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 28, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

GOD IS A WOMAN; (1) THE BIBLICAL PLAY THAT WONT FOLLOW SCRIPTURE RELIGIOUSLY...changed - and now, amid a row of Biblical proportions, Ruth Ford is to play...year-old shopkeeper is the first woman to land the coveted role in the production...
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Workshop to Explore Roles of Biblical, Modern Women

Newspaper article by Nancy Luebke; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 15, 2000

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Workshop to Explore Roles of Biblical, Modern Women. by Nancy Luebke St. Thomas the Apostle...series of workshops designed especially for women. The idea behind the programs is to help women explore their spirituality and look at...
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THE MAN WITH SEVEN WIVES; Phil Sharp of Hove, Sussex, Says He Was Told by God He Was a Biblical King and Could Take as Many Wives as He Wanted. So What Persuaded These Women to Go along with Him?

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 20, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...He Was Told by God He Was a Biblical King and Could Take as Many...So What Persuaded These Women to Go along with Him? Byline...him that he was a king, a Biblical king, no less, and that...was to take seven wives, as Biblical kings were (he insisted...was already married, to a woman who had given him five children...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: women biblical

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Drama, Western

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...to his love tragedies, which emphasize women characters and psychological motivation...that explored the lives of minorities and women. Beginning with Lorraine Hansberry s A...into the next century. Feminist and other women-centered themes dramatized by contemporary...
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Name

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...person. In the Western world a woman traditionally adopted the family...Since the mid-20th cent. women in the United States have increasingly...the time of marriage; other women and some couples have adopted...discouraged the use of any but biblical first names. The practice...J. Kupper, Surnames for Women (1990); G. Payton, The...
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England, Church Of

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the clergy are not paid by the state. Women have been ordained as deacons since 1987...the church voted to begin consecrating women as bishops. Homosexuality is not a bar...also have objected to the consecration of women as bishops, which nonetheless was approved...
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Mishna

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...legal interpretations of portions of the biblical books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers...of the body of oral interpretations of biblical law was the work of the Tannaim , the...of the Sabbath and festivals; Nashim women, laws regarding vows, marriage, and...
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Islam

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Christians. Islam also recognizes a number of extra-biblical prophets, such as Hud , Salih , Shuayb , and...rights and obligations apply equally to men and women. The actual situation of women is more a function of particular social traditions...

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